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A HISTORY OF GARDEXIXG IN EXGLAXD. 



in the open-air, and Lapargerias will grow like ivy on 

 sheltered walls. At Carclew, Rhododendrons Thomsoni, 

 Hodgsoni, campylocarpum, argenteum, and many other tender 

 varieties were covered with bloom last spring. In that garden 

 there are many interesting plants thriving well, which are usually 

 kept in green-houses in England. Choisya ternata, Embothrium 

 coccineum, Phyllocladus rhomboidalis, Azara microphylla, are 

 among the number, and Benthamias, the seeds of which were 



NARCISSUS IN THE SCILLY ISLES. 



first sent home to England from Ceylon by Sir Anthony BuUer, 

 flourish : some of the original ones still grow in the garden 

 at Heligan, where they were first planted. Still more favourable 

 is the climate of the Scilly Isles, and lately this has been taken 

 advantage of, for growing narcissi. Mr, Dorrien Smith started 

 the industry, and within the last ten years it has been 

 steadily increasing, and thousands of cut flowers are sent to 

 the London markets. In the Islands in February there are 



